Happy New Year! And welcome to my first Wednesday Window of 2013. For those of you new to this, it's something I started at the end of last year (see this post for more details); it's in its infancy so far, but hopefully this year it will get into its stride, so please stay with me! (And do send ideas for future Wednesday Windows if you come across something cool you think I'd like...)
Through today's window, we see this stuff:
I came
across this peculiarly useful grown-up play-dough via a twitter link nearly a year ago, and I bought
some that same day. According to their own spiel, “sugru
is the exciting new self-setting rubber that can be formed by hand. It moulds
like play-dough, bonds to almost anything and turns into a strong, flexible
silicone rubber overnight.”
Take a look at the
Sugru website, and the videos of customer fixes - it really is amazing stuff. It appeals on many levels: it's simple, easy, endlessly adaptable, comes in lots of pretty colours, and enables you not only to improve things you already use, but also to mend things you'd stopped using because they're broken, and that might otherwise be thrown away. They also have a rather cool Fixer's Manifesto:
(And no, this isn’t
a sponsored post, more’s the pity.)
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